Hello and welcome!
You'll find 3FC is full of inspiring, helpful people and lots of support and advice to help you on your weight loss journey.
You have a gym membership? Then make your first healthy resulution this week, to use that gym membership! Doesyour gym have any fitness instructors? They're usually included in the price of the gym membership (unlike personal traners, who work out with you and cost an hourly rate). A fitness instructor can make an exercise plan for you to follow and will periodically check your progress. It's fun to work at it and try to impress the.
If not, you can still get motivated at the gym by attending classes, like circuits, spinning, yoga, boxercise, etc. Working out under supervision and guidance often benefits better than trying to stick it alone.
But the most important thing when trying to lose weight is changing what you eat. Cut the junk food, soft drinks, refined sugar and refined carbs, eat plenty of wholemeal grains, vegetables, good protein and good fats (such as nuts) and try to get in 1.5 litres a day of water. This is what I'm doing currently and it's working like a charm, and eating every 4 hours keeps your metabolism going like a well oiled machine. I limit my calories to 1200 a day, but I'm 5'2. If you're taller you'll need to increase that accordingly. My last tip - never eat after 8pm. You're not burning many calories at that point in the evening and you won't burn it off.
Those are my tips - eat right and often, drink lots of water, keep up the exercise and stay strong!
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